HIV/AIDS in Africa

Rates of HIV/AIDS vary across Africa, but the southern region of the continent is generally most impacted by the disease. As of 2019, HIV/AIDS was the fourth leading cause of death in Africa ...

Mine Health and Safety Act: Guidance note on management …

Mine Health and Safety Act: Guidance note on management and control of HIV in South African Mining Industry

Mining Industry – National Institute for Occupational Health

Migrant workers are at high risk of contracting respiratory and sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV) whilst working in the mining industry. The NIOH has the opportunity to assess the long term survival and measure sickness in nearly 2000 gold miners with known dates of HIV infection, by using data and records already routinely ...

Mine Workers

HIV prevalence in mineworkers (24%) is higher than the national adult average (49%) (2). The mining sector in South Africa has been affected by the HIV epidemic but improved …

Mining industry in India

Mining industry in India - statistics & facts. India produces nearly 95 minerals, including fuel, metallic, non-metallic, and minor minerals, which serve as raw materials for various industries ...

HIV/Aids in the mining industry: what are we doing about it?

Article. Supply Chain & Operations. HIV/Aids in the mining industry: what are we doing about it? By Dale Benton. May 17, 2020. 8 mins. More than 40 million …

Between Cause and Cure: The Mining Industry and HIV…

At the 2010 HIV/AIDS conference in Durban, the South African gold mining sector came under heavy criticism from medical practitioners, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the South African Minister of Health for its part in the tuberculosis crisis that affects the industry and its workforce. Tuberculosis is a so-called opportunistic disease of HIV/AIDS.

Minister Gwede Mantashe: 2019 Mine Health and Safety Statistics

Statement on the release of the 2019 Mine Heatlh and Safety Statistics. The purpose of today's briefing is to officially release the 2019 occupational health and safety statistics for the mining industry. Together with our social partners in the mining industry – organised business and organised labour – we have assessed progress …

(PDF) Industrial mining and HIV risk: Evidence from 39

Using logistic regression models, we compared HIV related indicators between mining (i.e. up to 10 km distance from the mine) and comparison (i.e. 10-50 km) areas before and after mine opening to ...

Mining industry worldwide

The revenue of the top 40 global mining companies, which represent a vast majority of the whole industry amounted to a record 943 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. The net profit margin of the mining ...

U.S. mining industry

Employment in the United States mining industry excluding oil and gas from 2000 to 2022 (in 1,000s)* Basic Statistic U.S. employment in support activities for mining 2000-2021

HIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009

HIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009. 1940s. The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from animals to humans was made even earlier in the 1930s, others claim it was later than the 1940s. 1959.

Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining industry

A second study reported respirable silica dust concentrations ranging from 0.018 mg/m 3 to 0.035 mg/m 3 ( 22 ); this is much lower than the South African Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL) of 0.1 mg/m 3 but higher than the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) limit of 0.025 mg/m 3.

Mining and HIV/AIDS Transmission Among Marampa …

In recent years, the mining industry has been under pressure to improve its social, developmental, and environmental performance in addressing issues of indigenous rights, social justice, and negative effects on local communities (Mining, Miner, & Sustainable Development [MMSD], 2003; World Bank, 2004). The effects of HIV/AIDS in mining

Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate

TB programme and TB/HIV co-infection in all mines 50 3.4.3. HCT services in all mines 53 3.4.4. HCT services per commodity 53 4. STATE OF SAFETY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING INDUSTRY 58 4.1. Accident statistics 58 4.2. Analysis of accidents and injuries 58 4.2.1. ... MINE SURVEYING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING INDUSTRY 72 5.1. …

Skills under threat: The case of HIV/AIDS in the mining industry …

This paper examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on the productive labour force and management responses. It forms part of the findings of data gathered in 2001 in the mining industry in Zimbabwe, to ...

Industrial mining and HIV risk: evidence from 39 …

We find that on average mining operations increase HIV prevalence by about 20% (from 5.8 to 7.3%), whereas surrounding areas simultaneously experienced a decrease from 6.7 to 6.0%. This corresponds to an almost two-fold increase in the odds …

HIV/AIDS in the South African mining industry: Health and …

As the global HIV/AIDS epidemic continues unabated, South Africa is especially experiencing a rapid spread of the virus. The mining industry, in spite of recognising the risks of the epidemic at ...

HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector : A Resource …

Section One introduces the Guide, provides key background information on the mining sector and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, describes the contents of, and framework and …

Tackling TB and HIV/AIDS in mining

Tackling TB and HIV/AIDS in mining. Government, labour and business unite to reduce TB in mining. The depar tments of Health and of Mineral Resources, the four primary mining unions - Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Solidarity, UASA – and the Chamber of Mines have launched a ...

(PDF) HIV/AIDS Policy in the Mining Industry May

Abstract. This article examines HIV/AID policy in the South African Mining Industry as it stood in 1993. 20+ million members. 135+ million publication pages. 2.3+ billion citations. Content ...

Tackling HIV in the mining industry

The Chief Inspector of Mines has issued a guidance note to assist mining companies to manage and control HIV in the workplace, which requires employers to put policies, plans, awareness and monitoring in place More than 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV and it is estimated that 26 million of these are workers aged …

'Dying for gold': the effects of mineral mining on HIV, …

Workers in South Africa's gold mining industry have among the highest incidences of tuberculosis in the world, of between 3000 and 7000 cases per 100,000 population per year, compared with 981 per 100,000 population in South Africa overall and a global incidence of 128 per 100,000 population per year .

The SA mining industry enters the HIV/AIDS war zone

The mining industry is South Africa's single largest employer (De Lange 1999a). Although the workers that are dying from AIDS can easily be replaced and there is a trend towards mechanisation, the advent of HIV/AIDS holds economic consequences for the mining companies (Anon 2001b).

Beyond the biomedical and behavioural: towards an …

The paper analyses the response of key players in the mining industry, in the interests of highlighting the limitations of the way in which both managements and trade unions have responded to HIV. It will be argued that the energy that has been devoted either to biomedical or behavioural prevention programmes or to human rights issues has ...

(PDF) Industrial mining and HIV risk: Evidence from …

Results: A total of 33,086 individuals across 39 mine openings were analyzed. Adjusting for baseline differences and temporal trends in the study regions, …

Communities in Africa twice as likely to have HIV …

"We find that on average, mining operations increase HIV prevalence by about 20% (from 5.8 to 7.3%). This corresponds to an almost two-fold increase in the odds of being HIV-positive after mine opening," …

Industrial mining and HIV risk: evidence from 39 …

Adjusting for baseline differences and temporal trends in the study regions, mine opening increased the odds of HIV infection almost two-fold [odds ratio (OR): …

Mine Health and Safety Act: Guidance note on …

testing in the mining industry with the aim of closing the HIV testing gap and achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 strategy goals. 2.2. The guidance note sets out good practice and must be read and interpreted within the existing WHO Guidelines on HIV self-testing. 2.3. The HIV self-testing guidance note presents an opportunity for South African mining

Mining industry in Ghana

Mining industry in Ghana - statistics & facts. Ghana. Ghana was the sixth-largest producer of manganese in the world as of 2021. The production volume of the metal reached 3.3 million metric tons ...